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Post by gomezaddams666 on Apr 3, 2017 7:26:57 GMT
I ask you to consider movies, comic books, TV shows, iconic heroes.
And to make it more fun you can't know how any of them fair until you vote.
Feel free to explain your decision, feel free to colorfully express why you're right and everyone else is wrong.
Why? Let's have some good ol' fashion flame war!
Without further due... "Let them fight!"
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Apr 3, 2017 7:31:57 GMT
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Post by sariz on Apr 3, 2017 7:41:54 GMT
Marvel because I prefer their lighter tone, sure they have some dark moments here and there but it's nice they don't take their stuff so seriously.
I haven't read the comics but I'm gonna say this about their films Marvel has better heroes while DC better villains.
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Post by kingkoopa on Apr 3, 2017 8:18:13 GMT
Marvel because I prefer their lighter tone, sure they have some dark moments here and there but it's nice they don't take their stuff so seriously. I haven't read the comics but I'm gonna say this about their films Marvel has better heroes while DC better villains. Spot on take in my opinion. I prefer DC, though I'm not really knowledgeable about the true comic universes. You nailed it with the villains. The heroes in both are easy to wrap your head around, but the villains are always the guys/girls I like watching. DC has some great ones. Always liked Batman and the Punisher. "Watchmen" was fantastic and terribly underrated IMHO. That said, I knew nothing about Ironman until I saw the first movie, and it was an awesome watch. I like what they are doing with the Marvel universe, but they've yet to provide me with a villain as interesting as the DC roster. I watch for the villains most of the time, so DC gets the edge for me. Really enjoyable to see both camps getting the treatments they are. For example, I had no idea what "Guardians of the Galaxy" was going to be or who the characters were, but that was a lot of fun to watch. DC and Marvel have like a Cold War going on...and we all get to eat the popcorn and enjoy! Again, never read a comic book, though I enjoy seeing the stories on screen. Certainly not a purist or expert. Comic book movies tend to have awesome scores, so I try to check them all out regardless of critical acclaim, and am rarely disappointed.
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Post by mslo79 on Apr 3, 2017 8:26:31 GMT
well in general... i think Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman/Thor are the best super hero's so whatever that would put me as outside of some of those movies (and i am assuming Wonder Woman (2017) is thumbs up status here) i don't think there is a super hero movie i like off the top of my head.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Apr 3, 2017 8:29:52 GMT
Love both but Im going with DC since Batman is my favorite.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 10:14:22 GMT
DC
They have Batman
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Post by Jerk on Apr 3, 2017 11:10:30 GMT
I like both equally.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Apr 3, 2017 11:22:57 GMT
Marvel's movies are better but I like DC's TV shows better and especially after Iron Fist.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Apr 3, 2017 14:26:43 GMT
I was never into comics so I have no take on that medium. Based purely on the movies, I'm going with Marvel because I prefer my superhero movies to be more fun than dark and gritty. Similar to how I view the Daniel Craig 007 era...while his movies are great action movies, they've never felt like Bond movies to me, no sense of fun about them. I have other genres I can turn to for dark and gritty.
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Post by movielover on Apr 3, 2017 14:37:48 GMT
Marvel comic books over DC, easily. ...One of the rare occasions I'm voting new school over old. Admittedly though, I stopped collecting comic books over 30 years ago.
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Post by amygaipaboy on Apr 3, 2017 15:07:18 GMT
They both suck. Adults should stop watching comic book movies and grow the f up.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 3, 2017 15:28:09 GMT
Just been more a DC guy.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 16:54:39 GMT
They both suck. Adults should stop watching comic book movies and grow the f up. “Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” ― C.S. Lewis
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 3, 2017 17:30:08 GMT
Marvel.
Even though Batman is my favorite superhero and Nolan's TDK trilogy are by far the best comic book movies, the problem is that is pretty much all DC has going for it. There is also a lack of memorable characters in DC outside of Batman. DC also has a serious sequel problem such as Superman III and IV, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin and to a lesser extent Batman V Superman. Justice League looks like garbage based on the trailer.
Marvel on the other hand has their shit much more together and produces many more good movies overall, especially the X-Men franchise and Raimi's first 2 Spider-Man movies. Marvel just has a much better variety of interesting characters too.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 3, 2017 17:52:55 GMT
I prefer Dark Horse and Valiant to DC and Marvel...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 17:58:57 GMT
I was a DC fan first and foremost for most of the my life, but in terms of the current cinematic scene: Marvel, as in Marvel Studios, because they're not trapped in the 90s or early 2000s like WB and Fox are.
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Post by Skaathar on Apr 3, 2017 18:02:15 GMT
Marvel wins for me for one big reason: DC's characters just feel old fashioned. Their names are very simplistic: Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Flash, etc.... whereas Marvel heroes have more creative names (Spiderman and Ironman aside): Hulk, Thor, Thing, Wolverine, Vision, etc.
Then there's the costumes: The whole "briefs on top of spandex with cape" look is quite outdated. I mean, Marvel's usual skin-tight outfits aren't that great either but they're still a bit more creative.
But the two above reasons are admittedly quite shallow, a bigger issue for me is this:
DC heroes feel like they're just a bunch of superpowers that were made into people whereas Marvel heroes feel like actual people who were given powers. Take Superman for example, he has a bunch of powers and he can be very heroic and stuff and people love him as Superman, but does anyone really relate to Clark Kent? Do we even care about Clark Kent? I mean, wearing glasses to hide your identity is just silly. Disappearing from work every other hour to save someone and still not getting fired just doesn't seem realistic. Compare that to someone like Spiderman, who's always late to work because he's busy saving people, who's always on the verge of getting fired and having a hard time making ends meet financially, well tihs hero seems more like a real person.
Another example: Batman. He's just a human, yet is a master detective, martial artist, scientist, inventor, hacker, engineer, chemist, physicist, medic.... basically if it's a human skill, Batman knows it. And he's constantly defeating heroes and villains who should be way more powerful than him. That's just not realistic nor is it relatable. Even his supposedly unbalanced psyche, he always seems to have it conveniently under control. Compare that with someone like the Punisher, now there's a guy whom you know is mentally unstable, and someone who's skillsets match his "I'm only human" character description.
I could come up with more examples but bottom line is: DC heroes are just too cliche and too old fashioned for me, whereas Marvel heroes feel like living, breathing characters.
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Post by sariz on Apr 3, 2017 18:54:28 GMT
Marvel because I prefer their lighter tone, sure they have some dark moments here and there but it's nice they don't take their stuff so seriously. I haven't read the comics but I'm gonna say this about their films Marvel has better heroes while DC better villains. Spot on take in my opinion. I prefer DC, though I'm not really knowledgeable about the true comic universes. You nailed it with the villains. The heroes in both are easy to wrap your head around, but the villains are always the guys/girls I like watching. DC has some great ones. Always liked Batman and the Punisher. "Watchmen" was fantastic and terribly underrated IMHO. That said, I knew nothing about Ironman until I saw the first movie, and it was an awesome watch. I like what they are doing with the Marvel universe, but they've yet to provide me with a villain as interesting as the DC roster. I watch for the villains most of the time, so DC gets the edge for me. Really enjoyable to see both camps getting the treatments they are. For example, I had no idea what "Guardians of the Galaxy" was going to be or who the characters were, but that was a lot of fun to watch. DC and Marvel have like a Cold War going on...and we all get to eat the popcorn and enjoy! Again, never read a comic book, though I enjoy seeing the stories on screen. Certainly not a purist or expert. Comic book movies tend to have awesome scores, so I try to check them all out regardless of critical acclaim, and am rarely disappointed. Yeah im not a fan girl of niether, i do enjoy both but I'm not gonna go mad because someone prefers DC. and yes DC. Has stronger villains Marvel could never make a movie like Suicide Squad because they don't have villains that good for a film like that but their heroes are Fantastic especially Tony Stark who id say is my favorite and like you I didn't know anything about him before watching the Iron Man. I prefer The Avengers over The justice League but I can enjoy both and will go to see both( Justice league snd the avengers infinity way) when they are released. Hard core Fans can have their big war all they want and we enjoy both.
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Post by Skaathar on Apr 3, 2017 19:18:20 GMT
All this talk about DC having stronger villains... like who? If we're just talking about the movies then you basically only have Joker who's a really good villain in the movie side. Most of their other villains range from mediocre to crappy. You mention Suicide Squad but remember that the actual villain of that movie was crappy.
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